[Gllug] Ubuntu....

[John Hearns]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> you'll never see a password again :-)  You can configure PAM to hand out
> a krb ticket when logging into X, and GNOME has a daemon that'll prompt
> the user to renew the ticket when it periodically expires. 

One (small) wrinkle there. If you're working on a big computer facility 
which uses Kerberos and maybe the AFS filesystem (which depends on 
Kerberos) if you submit a job which sits in the queue for a week or so 
the ticket will timeout. There needs to be a mechanism to auto-renew the 
ticket so the job continues to run. A bit late at night for me to bother 
to Google for the fixes, but just saying that there are such fixes 
around for batch systems.



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